A&Es ‘stuffed’ with people with respiratory infections
… but DGS says nothing because it isn’t covid-19 This is the gist of one of the latest stories by PáginaUm, an online that emerged during the pandemic principally because
Portugal bucks Europe’s Covid trend
Cases and deaths reduce in all regions: “we are on different path to other countries” For all the talk of a ‘sixth wave’, Portugal (so far) seems to be bucking
DGS publishes vaccination priorities for incoming refugees
… and they’re not COVID-19 Portugal DGS health authority has today published a new rule defining strategies for vaccinating foreign nationals arriving in Portugal under ‘situations of temporary protection’. Top
Doctors call for strategy for ‘long covid’
‘Long covid’ should have a national strategy, say public health doctors The Portuguese Association of Public Health Doctors (ANMSP) says a specific national strategy for ‘long covid’ should be created, similar
Goodbye daily Covid bulletins
DGS calls time on day-by-day tally of disease on wane Not before time, Portugal’s DGS health authority has decided to do away with the daily bulletins published mid-afternoon charting the
President awards SNS health service “membership of highest honorary order”
Portugal’s president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has awarded the Portuguese National Health Service (SNS) membership of the highest honorary order for its staff’s demonstration of “selflessness and heroism” – in
New study shows teens seven times more likely to develop myocarditis after second dose of Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19
An investigation in Hong Kong, the results of which were published last Friday, shows the risk of myocarditis in teens increases markedly with the second dose of Pfizer vaccine in
Vaccinated or not? Daily Covid bulletins will never say…
Monday saw yet another Covid bulletin at a point in the course of SARS-CoV-2 where most people have stopped watching, possibly even caring. But the important point is that these
Covid numbers in freefall as parents (and children) ‘don’t understand’ why masks still need to be worn in schools
Monday’s Covid bulletin shows Portugal’s numbers now are in free-fall. But the day is also serving to highlight the ‘lack of coherence’ in government decision-making. Very much as IL leader
“Progressive, gradual and cautious” – Portugal’s exit from Covid restrictions unlikely to blaze any trails
Tomorrow is the long-awaited day when experts who have led Portugal’s response to the pandemic are expected to plot an easing of restrictions. But while some countries are trailblazing their